September 4, 2006

As the global warming threat increases, nuclear energy
enjoys a renaissance, but the industry’s own checkered past
hints that nuke power will be neither easy nor cheap.
Also in this issue: The BLM’s decision to
lease land for energy exploration in the watersheds of Grand
Junction and Palisade, Colo., reveals the way oil and gas leasing
works.

Sidebar

The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was
created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by
their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird
Struminger says the program has proved flawed

Heard Around the West

Dirk Kempthorne and luxury RVs; The Farmer Wants a Wife,
maybe; no rules (or bras) at Sturgis; look before you pee;
hard-working Washington pot-growers; Arizona’s biggest
marijuana farm; with defense lawyers like this one, who needs a
prosecutor?; and big bird with a bad grip

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